APAC

The Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC) is a conference group of individuals who meet annually during professional meetings. Membership is free and open to all who share an interest in the teaching and learning of Asian Pacific American political affairs and community-based activism. Our members are typically affiliated with colleges and universities as faculty, staff, or graduate/undergraduate students. We also welcome partnership with community activists and organizational leaders. The APAC was co-founded in 1999 by Professors Andrew Aoki and Pei-te Lien as a related group of the American Political Science Association(APSA) that has a close relationship to the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the APSA. Starting in 2012, with the preparation and founding of the WPSA Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans in the Profession, we have held a mini-conference on APA politics during WPSA meetings.

A virtual special issue of Politics, Groups and Identities (2018) features state-of-the-art research on Asian American politics and is available here and free to access until February of 2019.

The upcoming APSA 2019 annual meeting (August 29 – September 1, 2019) in Washington DC will mark APAC's 20th anniversary. We hope that you will join us for this special celebration. We welcome new members to APAC and encourage you to join our google group or contact an officer below!

Contact APAC Officers

Co-Chair Dr. Loan LePresident, Institute for Good Government and Inclusion (IGGI)lkle@thinkiggi.com or thinkiggi.com

APAC: Past, Present and Future

Image Caption: "Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel at 848 Kearny Street near Jackson Street in San Francisco, California try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs' deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. Photo by Nancy Wong."Source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg